BIRTHS

Bernhard Horwitz (1807-1885) was a German-English chess master and chess writer.
Lothar Maximilian Lorenz Schmid (1928- 18.05.2013), a German Grandmaster, Correspondence Grandmaster, International Arbiter and chess collector. He was the Chief Arbiter at the 1972 World Championship Match between Spassky and Fischer
Zlatko Ilincic (1968 ), Serbian Grandmaster who was the champion of Yugoslavia in 2000.
Dao Thien Hai (1978), a Vietnamese Grandmaster who participated in 12 Olympiads between 1990 and 2012.
Peter Acs (1981), a Hungarian Grandmaster who he won the 2001 World Junior Chess Championship.
Jiri Stocek (1977), a Czech Grandmaster who was Czech Champion in 2011.
Pavel Elijanov (1983), the best Ukrainian Grandmaster in 2017, he was a second of Boris Gelfand in 2012.
Pentala Harikrishna (1986), an Indian Grandmaster who was World Junior Champion in 2004 and Asian Individual Champion in 2011.
Leonid Voloshin (1964), a Czech Grandmaster born in Russia.
Dmitry Chuprov, Dmitry (1978-14.09.2012), a Russian Grandmaster.
Daniel Alsina Leal (1988), a Spanish Grandmaster.

CHESS EVENTS

1937 The World Championship revenge match opened between Euwe NED and Alekhine FRA. The rules were as in 1935.

WORLD EVENTS

1774 – Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette become King and Queen of France.
1775 Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia names George Washington, supreme commander.
1866 Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen is crowned the Ruling Prince of the United Principalities of Romania.
1904 The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
1924 J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
1933 – Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1940 Nazi armies attack Netherlands, Belgium & Luxembourg.
1940 Winston Churchill succeeds Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister.
1941 Adolf Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland.
1962 Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
1981 François Mitterrand wins the presidential election and becomes the first Socialist President of France in the French Fifth Republic.
1994 Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
(Source: Wikipedia)

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